Does anyone else apart from me think that whoever is designing bus-stops and street furniture in Sheffield ought to be made to go back to school? The stops, outside the Crucible, are a pathetic design which means that when the bus arrives you actually have to leave the stop to get to the bus, blocking pavements in the process. Also the gangs of schoolkids using the seats on the pavement (while those in the queue stand up) get a head start to push in. Now they've built a nice new exchange centre on the corner, (what happened to the memorial oak that was there by the way?) with more seats for people who don't like queueing, and moved the one I use (#52) outside TJ Hughes where there are still seats, and the support pillars are so big you can't see the flippin' buses as they drive up!

When I was going to school I remember stops at the bottom of Prince of Wales Road where there was a door-opening by the road, and one on the opposite side. There was also a divider down the middle. You got twice as many people inside when it rained that way, and the drivers would pull up with half the door before the stop and half in line with the entrance. No-one used to queue jump then :)

And don't let me get on about Worst-Mainline planting buses in the way so you can't even see when the Terrier gets there! grrrr!


Is that enough of a rant for a first post?

Val

a very thorough rant, i would say.

when the bus stop designers go back to school, can they also learn a way to prevent excessively friendly weirdos and people who hack lewgies up from wanting to be near me? there really must be people with friendlier faces than me who deserve their attention.